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Meanings of uncomplimentary in English

Spanish
nada halagador

Showing or representing unfavorably.

      nada halagador

      Tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage.

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            Examples for "complimentary"
            Examples for "complimentary"
            1
            Unable to look elsewhere, I made some complimentary reference to her cap.
            Travels With My Aunt
            2
            Some of the messages in the latter case were anything but complimentary.
            Wired
            3
            Wilbur had been feeling dizzier and dizzier through this long, complimentary speech.
            Charlotte’s Web
            4
            I volunteered to review a complimentary copy of her new Robotics book.
            Wired
            5
            Increasingly the media has become the story-andnot such a complimentary one.
            Feminist dot com
            Usage of uncomplimentary in English
            1
            My answers-andI was very particular-raisedquite a storm of uncomplimentary remarks.
            Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
            2
            It sounds uncomplimentary, and I'm sick of being compared with polar places.
            Linda Condon
            3
            I am sure I detected an uncomplimentary arrière pensée in your speech!
            Calvert of Strathore
            4
            You said nothing very uncomplimentary; in fact, I was quite flattered.
            My Brilliant Career
            5
            I take back every uncomplimentary remark I ever made about him.
            Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
            6
            Your newspaper printed my picture the other day, with some rather uncomplimentary remarks.
            In the Sweet Dry and Dry
            7
            Dick stuffed his bast in his pocket, and muttered things uncomplimentary to Banstead.
            Viviette
            8
            There were many uncomplimentary references, on the walls, to a certain unpopular dignitary.
            A Tramp Abroad
            9
            He could not understand them, but gathered that they were uncomplimentary.
            The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
            10
            Mrs. Kyley shouted an uncomplimentary summary of Quigley's character from behind the counter.
            In the Roaring Fifties
            11
            Presently he remembered that his moodiness, his silence, were uncomplimentary, cruel, to Violet.
            The Jungle Girl
            12
            I could not stay at the Farm, she added in her usual uncomplimentary style.
            Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
            13
            A certain modicum of truth may rest in this startling and seemingly uncomplimentary definition.
            Mark Twain
            14
            These and many other equally uncomplimentary remarks about the usurer were freely bandied about.
            Ticket No. "9672"
            15
            They had been hurling distinctly uncomplimentary and obscene epithets concerning Britain through the room.
            Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
            16
            I was very sorry for her, and thought many uncomplimentary things of the duke.
            The Princess Elopes
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